Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Trauma

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Movie
German title Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Trauma
Original title A Nightmare on 5 Elm Street: The Dream Child
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Stephen Hopkins
script John Skipp
production Robert Shaye
music Jay Ferguson
camera Peter Levy
cut Brent A. Schoenfeld
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Nightmare on Elm Street 4

Successor  →
Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6

Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Dream Child is a horror film from the year 1989 and the fifth part of the Nightmare series.

action

The plot follows on from part 4 . Alice Johnson leads a fairly orderly life again and is in a relationship with Dan Jordan. When she becomes pregnant, Freddy Krueger tries to return through the dreams of the unborn child in the womb.

In her dream world, Alice not only meets Krueger, but also her child, Jacob. She is confronted with the problem that Krueger wants to win Jacob over and manipulates him for his own purposes. Jacob stands between the lines and doesn't know who to believe: his mother or the man with the "strange hand". When Jacob then see how awful Freddy's because he claims to be Dan and him before the eyes murdered by Jacob, he stands with his mother. Together they can kill him and Jacob disappears.

reception

criticism

The lexicon of international films ruled that the film was a "humorless continuation of the trivial horror series". In addition, it is "flat, awkwardly told and full of excessive disgust."

Awards

Whit Hertford , who played Jacob, won the Young Artist Award in 1990 . Director Stephen Hopkins won the Critics' Prize of the Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto in 1990 and was nominated for another prize at this festival.

Bruce Dickinson , singer of the band Iron Maiden , received the Golden Raspberry in 1990 for the song Bring Your Daughter to The Slaughter . Mohandas Deweeses song Let's Go! was also nominated for the Golden Raspberry in the same year. Both songs can be found on the film's soundtrack.

Gross profit

This film could not build on the success of its predecessor, so the 5th part of the Nightmare series brought in box-office profits of around 22 million US dollars.

Cut versions

The film had in the United States are cut to the front of its release a few tips violence MPAA to get an R-rating. This R-rated version received an age rating of 18 years and over from the FSK in Germany and was indexed . The German video release was again slightly shortened compared to the R-rated version and also released for people aged 18 and over. A version shortened by around seven minutes received FSK-16 approval.

In 2007 the R-rated version was removed from the index and approved for ages 16 and over after a re-examination by the FSK.

The unrated version has only been released once in the USA on Laserdisc and in Germany as a bootleg .

background

  • At the beginning of the film, the mass rape of Amanda Krueger by a horde of imprisoned mentally ill people in a mental hospital is recreated in a dream scene, which ultimately leads to the fathering of the later child murderer Freddy Krueger, with actress Lisa Wilcox in the role of the abused nurse Amanda Krueger.
  • The fifth part of the Freddy Krueger film series increasingly uses surrealist images, for example in the scene in which the face of the villain Freddy appears on the ultrasound screen of the pregnant Alice Johnson in the hospital. When Alice and Jacob run down winding stairs towards the end of the film, overhead and against gravity, these scenes are reminiscent of the drawings by the artist MC Escher, which work with optical illusions .
  • As already introduced in the two previous parts 3 and 4, the horror character Freddy Krueger speaks significantly more in the fifth film than in the first two parts. As soon as he presses his victims , Freddy Krueger tears slogans based on black humor. In the scene in which Freddy turned the young comic artist Mark Gray, played by actor Joe Seely , into a man-sized paper figure and tore it to pieces with his clawed glove, Freddy replied to his victim: “ I always told you about the comic - Notebooks are not good for you. "(In the English-language original:" I told you comic books was bad for ya! ").

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Trauma . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2007 (PDF; test number: 63 246 DVD).
  2. ^ Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Trauma. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097981/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1
  4. ^ A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Schnittberichte.com Comparison between the R-rated version and the unrated version at schnittberichte.com
  6. ↑ Comparison between the R-rated version and the VHS version at schnittberichte.com
  7. ↑ Comparison between the FSK-18 and FSK-16 versions at schnittberichte.com
  8. ↑ Nightmare 5 - Re -examination with FSK 16 schnittberichte.com from November 26, 2007 (accessed on August 6, 2011)